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Proto-Indo-European religion - Priests | | Proto-Indo-European religion - Priests: Encyclopedia II - Proto-Indo-European religion - Priests | | The main functionaries of the hypothetical Proto-Indo-European religion would have been maintained by a class of priests or shamans. There is evidence for sacral kingship, suggesting the tribal king at the same time assumed the role of high priest. This function would have survived as late as 11th century Scandinavia, when kings could still be dethroned for refusing to serve as priests (see Germanic king). Many Indo-European societies know a threefold division of a clerical class, a warrior class and a class of peasants or husbandmen. Such a division was suggested ...
See also:Proto-Indo-European religion, Proto-Indo-European religion - Priests, Proto-Indo-European religion - Pantheon, Proto-Indo-European religion - Mythology, Proto-Indo-European religion - Development, Proto-Indo-European religion - Notes | | | Proto-Indo-European religion, Proto-Indo-European religion - Development, Proto-Indo-European religion - Mythology, Proto-Indo-European religion - Notes, Proto-Indo-European religion - Pantheon, Proto-Indo-European religion - Priests, Chariot burial, Soma, Ashvamedha, Comparing Eastern and Western religious traditions | | |
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Proto-Indo-European religion - Priests
The main functionaries of the hypothetical Proto-Indo-European religion would have been maintained by a class of priests or shamans. There is evidence for sacral kingship, suggesting the tribal king at the same time assumed the role of high priest. This function would have survived as late as 11th century Scandinavia, when kings could still be dethroned for refusing to serve as priests (see Germanic king). Many Indo-European societies know a threefold division of a clerical class, a warrior class and a class of peasants or husbandmen. Such a division was suggested for the Proto-Indo-European society by Georges Dumézil.
Examples of the descendents of this class in historical Indo-European societies would be the Celtic Druids and the Indian Brahmins.
The Germanic tribes may have been an exception in allowing women to become priests: the Völvas (see also witches).
Divination was performed by priests, e.g. from parts of slaughtered animals, see animal sacrifice, haruspex. Birds also played a role in divination, see augur, language of the birds.
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